The Curry House
I became hungry for that hot greasy curry that my friends suspected to
have caused me to become poisoned, but I think it was that pastie I reheated
one too many times. Never the less, like any curry addict, I had to get
it in ma' guts - no matter what.
My house mate wanted fast food too, although she refuses to eat from
that take away on Beaufort Street. I took her order for a kebab from the
place next door to the curry house - an up-market joint that had just
opened to reap the money from hungry pub goers from across the road.
I just live down the road from Beaufort Street, so its a quick
walk taking no more than 6 minutes. I ordered my house mates kebab first,
taking a mental note to come back here and get Dolmades, which I noticed
behind the counter - a tasty delight involving vine leaves 'n' rice -
Yum!
Moving from one shop to the next is like moving from a grand palace to
a slum house - I love it.
As I entered the curry house I recognised the person ordering a meal
from the range of grease dishes. It was Craig, a friend I've known for
about 6 years. I placed myself beside him and waited for him to noticed
me. "Norman! How ya' goin' man?" He finally noticed me. I invited
Craig back to my place for a drink with my house mate and myself.
I ordered my large vegetarian grease soaked combination from the equally
greasy gentleman behind the counter, who has an uncanny resemblance to
the long gone slap stick comedian C.W.Fields, minus the hat. A true Indian
quisine expert, I'm sure.
Out from behind a palm next to the counter appeared a middle age Asian
gent with a white plastic bag hung on his arm. "Do you want some
Serepax?" he enquires. Was this guy joking? I realised he wasn't
when he brought out a box of Serepax. I politely said "No thanks"
and wondered why the owner would allow drug dealing in his curry house,
even with it's bad rep. He wasn't put off by the first rejection and proceeded
to rattle off a list of other pharmaceuticals he thought I might
dig. Where was this guy at? Again I politely said "No thanks."
"What about heroin?" He indicated this with a needle action
on his arm. "Now your tempting me," I said jokingly. He obviously
thought he was onto something and continued saying "Yes heroin?"
and doing a jabbing action into his arm. "I can get you anything
you want," he said. "Anything?" I questioned. The curry
house owner thought it a good time to join in "He wants a woman"
he said with a smile and a rosy red nose. "A woman?" the little
man questioned. "Yeah" I said with only a slight twang of sarcasm
in my voice. "I can get you a woman," he said. "A virgin"
the curry man added. "Precisely. I want a virgin." The little
guy smiled and shook his head. Looks like there's no chance of a virgin
for me tonight so I settled on the greasy curry.
Went over the road to the aforementioned yuppie pub to get some takeaway
with my friend and headed on home for some serious drinking - that's my
chosen drug. By the way the service was very slow @ the pub.
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